Are you that one..?

Are you that one..?

have you noticed

conversations are made of

percepts and concepts..

assumptions abound

that these 'cepts

define our lives and

the lives of others..

campfire tales

grammar school grammar

science's standard model

those wedding vows

all of these reinforce

said assumptions..

and most would say

of the above:

yes..so far so good..!

yet there is that 

quiet one in the back

who has not spoken..

that one observes

the play of assumptions..

how the assumptions

cloud a hidden freedom

which is shared by all..

Are you that one...?

history's assumption

history's assumption

history has assumed
time and space
houses the past..
the activities examined
in unending research..

this assumption 
is a mind construct and
a self-imposed limitation
hiding a fuller and fruitful
truth..

history is dawning
as temporary shaping of
Awareness just now..
bypassing at last
that assumed confinement
in time and space..

history is upending...!

that too is part of the story

that too is part of the story

knowing our luminous self
renders all else as commentary..
story is then recognized as story
and the facts in the morning paper
whatever their favor or disfavor
become simply a part of the story..

this recognition of our luminosity
is a gateway to freedom..
a gateway for which we have
searched..perhaps until this morning..
a gateway in plain sight..hidden only
by our immersion in story...

for Molly

Molly's Place

I know you 

 remember your dance..

 your steps and routines
after diligent practice

came from some place

 you knew..yet words

could not name.. 

I hope you find

in your life unfolding

 though you dance

with different routines

that place you knew

those years ago

is recognized as the
 beauty you are...


"Let the beauty
of what you love
be what you do."
~~Rumi

Making Music

Making Music

first
 is the infinite field
unbroken and eternal..
this is the silence
before the sound..
then
this permanence 
breaking with sound
yet not broken
as sounds
come forth appearing
as notes..shaped by 
curling and uncurling
of that which  
is still silent...

RS: What is Music Made Of?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-4U_a_UA8g

Also..this Rachmaninoff piece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c33q87s03h4

Garments

Garments

religion is a garment

is it not..?

although its roots

may lie deep in memory

it is wearable today..

as I see it

very often the

 garment gains import

and that which houses

diminishes in scale..

in other words

religion only flourishes 

when its housing

shines with knowing

that all garments

can only express..
expresses that

which shines within.. 

Surrender

Surrender

there is a battle..however subtle
which rages within each of us..
battle lines are drawn by frustration
over failure to find more than temporary
peace..in the seeming reality of this world..

disappointment claims to be the reward
for skirmishes fairly engaged and won..
it is reported  that our disappointment
is a spy which observes our maneuvers
and watches for opportunities to whisper:

your strategies are futile..
when the spy suggests surrender as
the only workable plan..we resist and
return to our tents..to refresh and reset
our aims.. promising conquest ahead..

but the spy  also persists with her
ready advice..as victories and losses
do not end in declarations of peace..
it seems the world awaits our attention
to the soft whisper of the spy...



Rupert Spira...God is Self of Each of Us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQWIcYbtsEc&fbclid=IwAR0GRL9XpEG9t2B76xTtQVx3sdhC_XrsT8qwQA-F-BSr5WgKPebhGGT6e7k